Usually means: Appears to be; gives impression.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. seems: Merriam-Webster
  2. seems: Collins English Dictionary
  3. seems: Vocabulary.com
  4. Seem's, Seems, seem's, seems: Wordnik
  5. seems: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. seems: Wiktionary
  7. seems: Dictionary.com
  8. seems: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. The Seems: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. seems: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. seems: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. seems: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. seems: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (seem)

▸ verb:  (copulative) To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To befit; to beseem.
▸ Also see seem


Opposite:
differs, contradicts, belies, mismatches, disputes

Types:
looks, appears, seems like, seems as if, seems to be, seems to have, more...

Phrases:
it seems, Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word, Further Seems Forever, Not What He Seems, seems to go on forever, more...

Adjectives:
fortune, victorians, high, best, wide, weary, stale, conflicting, lone, hamlet, fierce



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Opposite:
differs, contradicts, belies, mismatches, disputes

Types:
looks, appears, seems like, seems as if, seems to be, seems to have, more...

Phrases:
it seems, Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word, Further Seems Forever, Not What He Seems, seems to go on forever, seems like, not what it seems, seems to, seems to be, it seems like, someone seems familiar, more...

Adjectives:
fortune, victorians, high, best, wide, weary, stale, conflicting, lone, hamlet, fierce




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